RADIO AUSTRALIA PREVIEWS
Edition 628
Dec. 10-12, 2003

Days and times are in UTC. An * indicates that a program is produced by
Radio Australia. All others are produced by Radio National or by other
ABC Radio networks as indicated. Further information about these
programs, as well as transcripts and on-demand audio files of particular
programs, and a wealth of supporting information can be obtained from
http://www.abc.net.au. Additional information and a key to
abbreviations and symbols used appear at the bottom of the page.

Please Note: Due to a one day industrial action at Radio National, some
programming may not go out as scheduled on Wed. Another e-mail details
likely changes.

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Weekdays
(RA or ABC News every hour on the hour)

0010 -
Thu.: BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Radio National's agenda-setting, current
affairs radio documentary program. This week: "Hep C, A Dirty Little
Secret". Hep C is couched in taboo, controversy, confusion and
misinformation. Just as AIDS forced a
straightforward look at sex, so Hep C will force us to look at why so
many young people are injecting everything from speed to ecstasy. [T;%]
Fri. - HINDSIGHT - social history. This week: "Australian Drinking
Habits: 'Six O'Clock Closing'." We raise a glass of fruit cup to the
Women's Christian Temperance Union, whose grit, grace and gumption still
shapes attitudes to modernity, womanhood and the composition of moral
hygiene. [%]

0100 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2300) [T;%]
0130 -
Wed.: RELIGION REPORT - with Stephen Crittenden. This week: "Christians
and Jews--Progression or Regression?" Last week, retired Cardinal Edward
Idris Cassidy and Melbourne's Rabbi John Levi met at the Sydney Jewish
Museum for a progress check on interfaith dialogue. Up for discussion
were the Vatican's track record on Jewish/Christian relations; the
"special relationship" between Christianity and Judaism, and whether or
not this relationship may broaden to include Islam; the developing links
between American rightwing Christians and Israel; doctrine, salvation,
and biblical interpretation. This week, we bring you highlights from an
illuminating and sometimes contentious conversation. [T;%]
Thu.: MEDIA REPORT - with Mick O'Regan.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/ for details. [T;%]
Fri. - THE SPORTS FACTOR - with Warwick Hadfield. This week: "Snowy
Baker".
Snowy Baker is one of the most fascinating characters in Australian
sport. He represented Australia in three different sports at the
Olympics, winning a silver medal in one - boxing. When he went to
Hollywood, he taught Elizabeth Taylor how to ride and Rudolf Valentino
how to kiss! [T;%]

0210 -
THE WORLD TODAY - Radio National's lunchtime comprehensive current
affairs program.
0255 -
Wed.-Fri.: STOCK MARKET REPORT*

0310 -
SPORT*
0320 -
LIFE MATTERS - A daily interview program about social change and
day-to-day life in Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/ for
details. Geraldine Doogue opens up the talkback lines on Wednesday to
discuss the issues raised by the documentary series, "The Price of Eggs"
broadcast over the last three weeks. [%]

0410 -
MARGARET THROSBY - in conversation with a special guest, playing their
favourite music and telling their own stories.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/throsby/#promo for details. (from ABC
Classic FM) This week: [%]
Wed.: Jonathon Franzen, Author. His "The Corrections" and "How to be
Alone" are published by Fourth Estate.
Thu.: Dr. Paul Brock, Director of Strategic Research for the
Department of Education and Training, NSW. Board member of the Motor
Neuone Diseaes Association of NSW.
Fri.: Joan Rivers, Comedian, author and businesswoman.

0510 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at
0530. [T;%]

0610 -
SPORT*
0620 -
Wed.: LINGUA FRANCA - about language. This week: "Turning Scholarly
History into a Ripping Yarn". Historian Iain McCalman on his own lesson
in learning the tricks of the trade. Some of the great best-sellers of
the past few decades have been popular histories written by
non-academics or by academics prepared to risk their scholarly
reputations in order to reach a popular market. Popular history is
narrative, a story; modern scholarly history is analytical, objective,
impersonal. Professor Iain McCalman, director of the ANU's Humanities
Research Centre, is the author of Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro, a
popular biography of the 18th century Italian fraudster. He talks about
his own ordeal of fashioning the esults of his historical scholarship
into a page-turner. [%]
Thu.: THE ARK - Rachael Kohn talks to some of the world's leading
religious historians and authors about curious moments in religious
history that shatter the usual perception of the past and illuminate the
present. This week: "Jewish Museum Berlin".
Officially opened in September 2001, the Jewish Museum Berlin, housed in
the renowned Libeskind Building, features two thousand years of German
Jewish history. [T;%]
Fri.: THE MAKERS - Julie Copeland interviews artists, composers and
craftspeople. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/makers.htm for
details. [%]
0635 -
Wed. - JAZZ NOTES* - presented by Ivqn Lloyd.
Thu. - OZ COUNTRY STYLE - from ABC Local Radio.
Fri. - THE LOUNGE* - presented by Heather Jarvis. The place to meet
people from the region living lives a little out of the ordinary. From
business, to sport, science and the arts. Community leaders and quiet
achievers. They drop in, share their stories and play a bit of music in
Radio Australia’s Lounge.

0710 -
PACIFIC BEAT* - daily afternoon magazine for the Pacific with Sport at
0730. [T;%]

0810 -
PM - Radio National's primary evening newscast for Australia. [T;%]
0855 -
PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary on current affairs and issues.

0910 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK - a daily national talkback program presented by
Sandy McCutcheon. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/austback/ for details
and daily topics. [%]
Wed.: "Why Do We Embrace Our Villains As National Heroes?". 00Many
people can't tell you the name of our first prime minister but few
hesitate over Ned Kelly, Robin Hood or Bill the Kid. Outlaws seem to
stand the test of time. But why do we embrace our villains as national
heroes?

1005 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1030 -
"REPORT" programs (refer to 0130)

1105 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1130 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - a shortened version of the program broadcast daily at
1605.

1205 -
Wed.-Thu.: LATE NIGHT LIVE - Phillip Adams hosts a discussion of
current events in politics, science, philosophy and culture. Details and
daily topics from http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/. [%]
Wed.: Nick Warner--Running the Solomons rescue mission.
Thu.: The cool jazz of Trude Aspeling.
Fri.: SOUND QUALITY - For 25 years, Tim Ritchie has been seeking out
music: the interesting, the evolutionary, the inaccessible and the
wonderful. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/ for details and
playlists. [T;%]

1305 -
THE PLANET - Lucky Oceans with jazz, blues, folk styles, art music and
more in a show artfully arranged for radio.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/planet/ for playlists and further
details. [T;%]
Wed.: Yale Strom is a film maker and a fiddler whose main interest is
in the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe. Instead of learning music from
old records, his approach is to go to the source and find surviving
players of the music. His CD, 'Cafe Jew Zoo', features musicians from
his two fine bands and clarinetist/mandolinist Andy Statman playing on
instrumentals as well as songs inspired by Yale's film making
experiences, such as 'LChayim, Comrade Stalin' which tells the story of
the Jewish Autonomous Region - the Siberian area which the Soviet
Government encouraged its Jewish population to emigrate to in the 1930s.

Thu.: The new CD by Rickie Lee Jones is a big surprise, probably even
to herself. Her songs always used to avoid anything 'political'. “The
Evening of My Best Day” is many other things too ? tender, sensuous,
musically inventive, playful & poignant ? but is in large part a very
(com)passionate cry of protest. Its opening song is addressed to “The
Ugly Man”: many of her fellow Americans would address him as “Mr
President”. Clearly the work of an artist doing as she pleases, the CD
has many notable guests (including Bill Frisell) & is very probably her
finest album. It certainly doesn't sound like a 'protest' album!
Fri.: When Miles Davis went to the Guca Brass Band Festival, a central
Serbian competition that draws over 300,000 people annually, he said "I
didn't know you could play the trumpet that way." Trumpeter Boban
Markovic, whose band did most of the brass band music for the film
'Underground', continually wins the contest. The power and variety of
his group is evident on their new recording "Balkan Brass Fest" with
grooves ranging from twisted balkan to New Orleans to funk sounds. It
introduces Boban's son Marko, a phenomenal trumpeter for his 15 years.

1405
SPORT
1410
PM (refer to 0810)
1455 -
PERSPECTIVE - expert commentary on current affairs and issues.

1505 -
ASIA PACIFIC (refer to 2310) [T;%]
1530 -
"REPORT" programs (refer to 0130)

1605 -
BUSH TELEGRAPH - rural and regional issues around Australia. Each day
Country Viewpoint offers a unique social commentary from people who live
outside the major cities. And for those who want to keep up with Rural
News, there is a daily look at the news headlines. [%]

1705 -
AUSTRALIA TALKS BACK (refer to 0910) [%]
1755 -
PERSPECTIVE (refer to 0855)

1805 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW
1810 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - focuses in on the island nations which
depend on the Pacific Ocean for their existence, drawing on Australian
based reporters and correspondents throughout the region. [T;%]
1830 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST - Australia beyond the urban fringe. [T;%]

1905 -
Fri.: RURAL REPORTER - the people and places that make up country
Australia.
1910 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1810 with sport at 1929.
1930 -
Fri.: AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY STYLE - Aussie country music with John
Nutting.

2005 -
Fri.: PACIFIC REVIEW*
2010 -
Wed.-Thu.: PACIFIC BEAT* - continued from 1910 with sport at 2029.
2030 -
Fri.: THE BUZZ (refer to 2330 Thu.) [%]

2105 -
Fri.: VERBATIM - Through the oral histories and memory of individuals,
the ways in which Australian society has changed over the past 100
years. This week: "Celia Rosser". Banksia rosserae is a new species of
Banksia, named in honour of one of the world's greatest living botanical
artists, Celia Rosser. For her it's the best honour she’s ever received,
and there’ve been many. An extraordinary eye for detail has enabled her
to focus her talent on one genus - the Banksia. It will never look the
same again. [T;%]
2110 -
Wed.-Thu.: AM - ABC's morning news magazine. [T;%]
2130 -
Wed.: TIME TO TALK - Series on politics, society and governance in
today's Pacific. Program Two: "Colonial Legacies". Last
century, Pacific nations were ruled by one or more colonial powers that
introduced new systems of government, religion and language. Today, most
have achieved political independence, but the impact of colonialism on
land, labour and economy still lingers. So how are chiefs, churches and
communities tackling the legacies of the past? [T;%]
Thu.: ALL IN THE MIND - a foray into the mental universe, the mind, the
brain and human behavior. This week: "Hearing Madness--The Soundscape of
the Asylum". We learn about the use of sound to diagnose and categorise,
the conviviality of the asylum ball, and the genre of the mad song as we
journey into the noisy world of 19th Century bedlam with historian and
musician Dr Dolly MacKinnon. [T;%]
Fri.: IN CONVERSATION - Robyn Williams talks to scientists and those
interested in the subject, about what science has meant to their lives.
This week: "Tony Crawford and Ross Large". Tony and Ross are both rock
choppers. They are veterans of old fashioned geology. Now they are
overseeing the cutting edge of ore exploration from
South America to Melanesia. Tell tale signs in the glass like magma
residues rising from vents beneath the ocean give clues about massive
deposits of minerals. This research is being driven from the University
of Tasmania. [%]

2205 -
Fri.: ASIA PACIFIC WEEKEND EDITION* - regional current affairs and
business magazine. [T;%]
2210 -
Wed.-Thu.: AM - (repeat of 2106) [T;%]
2230 -
Fri.: AM SATURDAY - ABC's Saturday morning news magazine. [T;%]
2240 -
AUSTRALIA WIDE - a roundup of "home" news from ABC Newsradio.

2300 -
Wed.-Thu.: ASIA PACIFIC - the latest news, including in depth coverage
of major events in corporate and financial circles in the Asia Pacific.
[T;%]
2305 -
Fri.: COUNTRY BREAKFAST (refer to 1830)
2330 -
Wed.: THE ARTS ON RA - Julie Copeland interviews artists, composers and
craftspeople and Julie Rigg looks at the movies.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/sunmorn/ for details concerning possible
segments carried in this program, as the program is an
abridged version of the "Sunday Morning" program that is broadcast on
ABC Radio National. [%]
Thu.: THE BUZZ - technology understandably explained. This week:
"Homework". 10 years ago we were told that by now many of us would be
working from home. It hasn't happened, but why not? There are many
reasons, but mostly it's because of people and trust. How much do
employers trust home workers? [%]
Fri.: HIT MIX* - presented by Brendon Telfer. Find out what we're
listening to in Australia and what we're giving to the world in our
brand new look at the Australian music scene. [T;%]

How to Listen to Radio Australia----
Via shortwave:
Best noted in eastern North America -
2100 - 0000 UTC: 21740 (usually reliable)
0000 - 0200 UTC: 15240 (occasional)
0200 - 0700 UTC: 15515 (variably reliable) [15240 and 17750 also noted
(occasional)]
0500 - 0800 UTC: 15160 (variably reliable)
0700 - 0800 UTC: 15240 (occasional) [13630 also noted (occasional)]
0800 - 1100 UTC: 9580 (usually reliable) [9590 also noted (variably
reliable)]
1100 - 1400 UTC: 9580 (reliable) [6020 (occasional), 9590 (usually
reliable) also noted]
1400 - 1600 UTC: 9590 (reliable, but fades prior to 1600 in eNA)
Best in UK as reported in Shortwave Magazine (further reports from
readers in the UK/Europe welcomed): (updated 3/16!)
0530 - 0900 UTC: 17750, 15240
0930 - 1100 UTC: 15415, 15240
1100 - 1300 UTC: 11880, 9475
1400 - 1700 UTC: 11750, 9475 (from 1430)
1700 - 1900 UTC: 9475
1900 - 2130 UTC: 9500
2200 - 0000 UTC: 13620
(Complete worldwide schedule from
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/schedule/default.htm.)
Via Internet audio streaming:
from http://www.abc.net.au/ra/audio/englishlive.htm
Via World Radio Network:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=50
Via CBC Overnight:
http://cbc.ca/overnight/
Via satellite:
consult http://www.abc.net.au/ra/hear/america.htm
Via the Mobile Broadcast Network, which offers WRN
http://www.myMBN.com

Symbols Used:
Within brackets by each program listing, % denotes that the listed
program is available as an on-demand audio file via the Internet. T
indicates that a printed transcript of the program is available via the
RA or via an ABC domestic network Internet site. Consult
http://www.abc.net.au/streaming/audiovideo.htm or the particular
program's web page.

To be updated by Fri. 0500 UT.

Good listening!
John Figliozzi